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Every weekday evening, Pinpoint deconstructs the day's options flow, large trades, and key price levels. Then it tells you where the market and up to 15 stocks you follow stand, what changed since yesterday, and the levels that matter.

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Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · Standard edition
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MSFTBullish · Medium conviction

The trend stays firmly bullish, six sessions running, and the fresh high strengthens that case even though the morning gap faded. The $520 ceiling that turned back buyers Wednesday and Thursday held again…

ReferenceResistance $520
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Open $519.39Close $517.53+0.92%

The trend stays firmly bullish, six sessions running, and the fresh high strengthens that case even though the morning gap faded. The $520 ceiling that turned back buyers Wednesday and Thursday held again, and put positioning that sat at $500 has now jumped to $517.50, right under the close. A $165 million block and a $200 million-plus cluster printed late below the day's average price, tempering the gain. None of it breaks the bullish read; $520 still decides whether this becomes a breakout toward the $540 to $555 buildup.

What to watch

A close above $520, where call sellers have repeatedly capped this stock, opens the door toward the $540 to $555 buildup. A close back below $503.39, the estimated hedging pivot, would be the first real crack in the bullish case.

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Pinpoint is built for active swing traders who want to stay on top of the market without spending hours researching every day.

If you typically hold positions for several days, weeks, or months, follow a watchlist of stocks, and pay attention to technical levels, options activity, and broader market conditions, you'll probably find a lot to like.

It's especially useful if you have a day job. You enjoy trading and doing your own research, but you can't spend every afternoon watching scanners, reading X threads, and piecing together conflicting signals.

Who probably won't benefit as much?
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Pinpoint helps you stay informed, recognize opportunities, and manage your trading theses. The decisions are yours.

The daily briefing is where most subscribers start, but there's an entire research platform behind it.

Every weekday evening, Pinpoint delivers a market-wide analysis alongside personalized coverage of up to 15 stocks or ETFs on your watchlist. You get the important developments, directional assessments, key levels, and what changed since previous sessions.

When something deserves a closer look, you have a full suite of research tools:

  • Signal Lab: Explore market conditions, historical trends, options positioning, and the evidence behind our analysis.
  • Flow Radar: Discover noteworthy options activity through curated scanners that prioritize potentially meaningful transactions over raw trade volume.
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  • Level Map: Explore significant options positioning, open-interest concentrations, and important price levels.
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There's also a Weekly Lookback every Sunday, where we revisit the previous week's calls and evaluate what held up and what didn't.

The daily brief is designed to save you time. The dashboards give you the depth to investigate the things that catch your attention.

You can spend ten minutes with Pinpoint or an entire afternoon. It's up to you.

There are some excellent options scanners on the market. We've used many of them ourselves.

Their strength is giving you access to enormous amounts of trading data, often with hundreds of ways to filter, sort, and explore it.

But that's also what frustrated us.

We found ourselves juggling multiple scanners, charts, X threads, and financial news sources, spending hours trying to determine which signals were meaningful and what they suggested about the broader market.

We wanted the research, not another pile of data to research.

That's the problem we built Pinpoint to solve.

How it works
  1. Ingest market activity.
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  3. Compare signals against historical patterns.
  4. Evaluate them alongside price action, options positioning, and broader market conditions.
  5. Turn that evidence into analysis covering the market and the stocks you follow.

We have curated scanners and dashboards too, but we've deliberately prioritized interpretation and context over offering thousands of filters.

If you're looking for a one-to-one replacement for every feature in a professional options terminal, Pinpoint may not be what you need.

If you'd rather open your research platform and find that much of the analytical work has already been done, you're in the right place.

Example

Let's say a stock on your watchlist is approaching a major resistance level.

You notice unusual call volume, but the stock hasn't broken out. Is that meaningful accumulation? Hedging? Speculation? And does the broader market support the move?

Answering those questions usually means jumping between several tools and reviewing activity from previous sessions.

Pinpoint does much of that work automatically.

We analyze options flow, price action, positioning, historical patterns, and market conditions to identify developing setups and explain the evidence behind them.

Each analysis highlights:

  • The directional lean
  • Relevant support and resistance levels
  • The conditions that would strengthen or invalidate the thesis

We also maintain context across sessions.

If a bullish setup starts deteriorating, we want you to know what's changed and why. If an important level holds and supporting evidence strengthens, that deserves attention too.

The goal is to help you spend less time hunting through data and more time evaluating opportunities, managing risk, and making informed trading decisions.

Pinpoint provides trading research and market analysis, rather than personalized buy or sell recommendations.

We examine what happened across the broader market and the stocks you follow, compare that activity with previous sessions, and assess what the available evidence suggests.

That includes directional assessments, emerging setups, changes in options positioning, and key support and resistance levels.

Example

For example, we might identify improving bullish positioning in a stock while explaining that a breakout above $150 would strengthen the case, whereas a close below $142 would invalidate it.

You get the reasoning, the supporting evidence, and the conditions worth watching.

We don't decide whether you should enter that trade, how much capital to commit, or when to exit your position. Those decisions depend on your own strategy, risk tolerance, and circumstances.

Our job is to make sure you have a well-researched picture of the market before making them.

Pinpoint combines traditional quantitative analysis with modern language models, with a deliberate separation between the two.

01Quantitative pipelines

All quantitative calculations happen in code, before AI is involved.

We've built more than 14 specialized Python analysis pipelines that calculate over 60 quantitative signals and metrics. These pipelines process the raw market data, filter transactions, measure options activity, evaluate positioning, identify statistical anomalies, and compare current conditions against historical patterns.

The calculations are deterministic, and we've developed tests and evaluations to verify the pipelines' behavior and outputs.

02AI interpretation

Once that processing is complete, Claude receives the structured findings, relevant historical context, and supporting market data.

Its job is interpretation.

We use carefully designed analytical prompts built around established concepts in technical analysis, market structure, options positioning, and fundamental market analysis. These instructions define how evidence should be evaluated, how conflicting signals should be weighed, and when uncertainty should be acknowledged.

The model doesn't invent trade statistics, calculate our signals, or independently determine the underlying quantitative measurements.

It examines the evidence our pipelines have produced and develops a coherent explanation of what it may mean.

The result combines the consistency of deterministic analysis with the ability to interpret complex, sometimes conflicting market information.

AI interpretations can still be imperfect, which is why we continue testing, evaluating, and refining the analytical process.

We can identify activity consistent with institutional-sized trading and analyze what it may suggest. But market data doesn't always reveal who placed a trade or why.

Example

A large call purchase, for example, isn't automatically a bullish institutional bet. It could be part of a hedge, a spread, or a transaction closing an existing position.

We account for these limitations in our analysis.

Pinpoint examines transaction characteristics, options positioning, open interest, historical activity, price behavior, and other supporting evidence to assess whether something unusual or potentially meaningful is developing.

We also evaluate how signals compare with each stock's own trading history. An unusually large transaction in one stock might be perfectly ordinary in another.

When the evidence supports a bullish or bearish interpretation, we'll explain the reasoning. When it doesn't, we'll say so.

We'd rather give you an honest mixed assessment than manufacture conviction that the data doesn't support.

Understanding what market activity suggests is valuable. Pretending to know every institution's intentions isn't.

Not at all. We specifically designed Pinpoint for people who can't spend the entire trading session glued to a screen.

Our primary analysis runs after the market closes, incorporating the completed session alongside relevant historical context. Paid subscribers receive their evening briefing on weekdays, typically by 6 PM ET.

That means you can finish work, open your inbox, and get caught up on the market and your watchlist in roughly ten minutes.

If you prefer to check in during the day, our Intraday features provide four scheduled updates highlighting developing market conditions and noteworthy options activity.

The dashboards also let you explore historical signals, monitor options contracts, examine sector rotation, and track your positions whenever it's convenient.

Different datasets have different update schedules. For example, options open interest is generally updated daily rather than continuously throughout the session.

Pinpoint isn't designed to replace a real-time execution terminal. It's designed to help you understand what matters without requiring you to watch every trade as it happens.

We track our calls and evaluate what happened afterward, including the ones that didn't work out.

Every Sunday, our Weekly Lookback revisits the previous week's analysis and examines how individual setups and market assessments developed.

We look at whether:

  • Important levels held
  • Anticipated moves materialized
  • The conditions supporting or invalidating a thesis were met

We're also developing and refining systematic evaluations for our quantitative signals, including how they perform across different market conditions and time horizons.

An important distinction

There's an important distinction between evaluating a market call and claiming that a trading strategy is profitable.

A correct directional assessment doesn't necessarily translate into a profitable trade. Entry timing, execution, position sizing, and risk management all matter.

We believe good market research should be accountable to what happens next.

Some assessments will be right. Others won't. Sometimes the most useful conclusion is that the evidence doesn't support a confident directional call.

We want subscribers to understand the reasoning behind our analysis, see how it evolves, and make their own judgments about its usefulness.

Historical results are not guarantees of future performance.

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